“They [spinners like Dave Elliott] should be banished from the first class game. It winds me up, if you are a spinner, spin the ball,” Swann said in an interview with Reuters at a recent Kinect Sports Superstars event.

“I have never, ever seen the point of bowling without trying to spin the ball. It’s been my bugbear that I have seen some young spinners come up who have got lovely control and land it nicely but don’t try to turn it.”

In a recent press release Dave Elliott thanked Graeme Swann for describing him as young.